Maria specializes in the economic and technical analysis of grid planning and operations issues, including capacity expansion, production cost, and energy storage dispatch modeling. She has submitted expert testimony and comments on integrated resource planning, plant economics, unit commitment practices, and power cost issues before state utility regulators in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Prior to co-founding Current Energy Group, Maria was a Technical Director at Strategen, focusing on grid planning and decarbonization issues, while in the past she has also contributed to the development of large-scale energy planning models. Maria holds a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.
